Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1912 — Priest Converts Hundred to Marriage [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Priest Converts Hundred to Marriage

KANSAS CITY. Forty-eight engagements and one marriage are the fruitage thus far of the matrimonial guild of Father William J. Dalton of the Church of the Annunciation. "I am expecting London and Kansas City to span the ocean and join hands In the culmination of a romance started a quarter of a century ago," he said, “and If the hearts that were estranged then are united now It will mean that our little efforts here have been responsible for a well-known professional man of Kansas City marrying his boyhood sweetheart "It happened this way," Father Dalton continued. "I received a letter from a woman in London soon after the papers thereesontained an account of our little venture, asking if I could find a man of a certain name In Kansas City. She said they had been engaged more than twenty-five years ago; that an estrangement had come and that hehad departed for America. She said that she still loved him and asked mo to find him for her. I found

him. I am hoping soon to hear of their marriage.” Each day Father Dalton's mall grows larger. He has had letters from every big city in the United States; from nearly every state; from foreign countries; ‘from one man worth 12,000,000; from Indian girls of Oklahoma and Texas; from hankers, judges, lawyers, physicians and farmers. In the local classes—those which meet every week at Father Dalton's home—there are twenty couples who are expected to embark within the next few months. Several of these already have announced their engagement, while the rest are "understood.*